A hundred-year-old worm?

Blakemore, R. J.; Elton, K. L.

doi:10.7882/az.1994.014

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“…have restricted distributions, reports indicate some have acquired greater ranges via fluvial or human-mediated transportation. Thus, A. exigua murrayana occurs from the Riverina region of NSW and Victoria to near the mouth of the Murray River in South Australia; A. tenax from Sydney has been reported by Michaelsen (1900) from the Marquesas Islands; A. macleayi appears widespread in NSW (Blakemore & Elton, 1994); while A. sebastiani was described from Queensland, NSW and Tasmania. Another species, A. dorsalis (Fletcher, 1887b), is particularly widespread in Victoria and South Australia as well as in Tasmania (Blakemore, in.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…These characters are shared with Anisochaeta macleayi which is morphologically close. This latter species, recently redescribed in Blakemore & Elton (1994), differs in its less robust body, more lateral spermathecal pores and distribution of its genital markings. Especially distinctive in typical populations of A. macleayi are the two pairs of prominent mounds presetally in 10 and 11, each with an eye-like pore on its summit.…”

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New species of the earthworm genus Anisochaeta (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) from New South Wales

Blakemore¹

2000

Rec. Aust. Mus.

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The number of Anisochaeta from New South Wales is more than doubled to 50 species in the present account. Twenty-seven species are newly described, one of which is tentatively attributed to the dubious genus Propheretima. A checklist is presented with the distributions of the twenty-three previously described Anisochaeta from NSW that were variously attributed to the genera Perichaeta, Megascolex, and Spenceriella. One species, Megascolex crateroides Boardman, 1943, is herein synonymized with Anisochaeta gracilis (Fletcher, 1886b). A replacement name, Anisochaeta trichaeta, is proposed for the homonym of the Victorian Trichaeta australis Spencer, 1900. A key is provided for currently known NSW species. The generic definition of Anisochaeta is modified to accommodate forms with the newly discovered vesiculate nephridial condition. Several of the new species have setae between the male pores, further reducing the distinctiveness of Propheretima from the prior genus Spenceriella, which is itself currently synonymized under Anisochaeta.

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New species of the earthworm genus Anisochaeta (Oligochaeta: Megascolecidae) from New South Wales

Blakemore¹

2000

Rec. Aust. Mus.

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“…5) from Norfolk Island (Australia) and Australian Anisochaeta macleayi (Fletcher, 1889) from Wairakei, NZ are comparable to Anisochaeta minor (Spencer, 1900) from Queensland, Australia-see Blakemore (1994;1997;2000a;2010b) and Blakemore & Elton (1994). These references show that representatives of native genus Anisochaeta are particularly widespread in Australia and appear resilient to agricultural cultivation/habitat disturbance (e.g.…”

Section: Earthworm Surveysmentioning

confidence: 95%

“…305) for comparison]. This species is fully described by Blakemore (1994;1997;2000a;2010b), and in Blakemore & Elton (1994) but under its prior name, Spenceriella macleayi. Distribution.…”

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confidence: 99%